The High Court has asked for a list of how many Rohingyas who fled from Myanmar's Rakhine to Bangladesh have become voters in Cox's Bazar. The DC of Cox's Bazar and the related parties have been asked to submit this list to the court by June 6. At the same time, the court ordered to exclude 38 Rohingyas from the voter list of Eidgaon Union in Cox's Bazar.
A High Court bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Kazi Zeenat Haque passed the order on Wednesday (April 24). Advocate Mohammad Siddique Ullah Mia heard on behalf of the writ in the court.
Earlier on Tuesday (April 23), a writ was filed in the High Court seeking directions to submit a list of how many Rohingyas have become voters in Cox's Bazar. At the same time, the petition requested to exclude Rohingyas from the voter list. Besides, until the voter list of Eidgaon Union is updated, it is requested to stop or postpone the election and voting in the announced schedule.
In the writ, the Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government, the Secretary of the Election Commission, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) and the Superintendent of Police (SP) of Cox's Bazar district were made defendants.
Local voters. On behalf of Hamidur Rahman, Supreme Court lawyer Mohammad Chiddiq Ullah Mia filed a writ.
Lawyer Advocate Mohammad Chiddiq Ullah Mia said that 38 Rohingyas have taken National Identity Card (NID) of Bangladesh after being included in the voter list of Eidgaon Union of Cox's Bazar Sadar Upazila. A writ petition is filed adding their list. In addition, it has been alleged that several hundred (three and a half hundred) Rohingyas have become citizens in the same union and requested to suspend the election of the Union Parishad until the voter list is updated by removing their citizenship.
On August 25, 2017, the country's army started killing, raping and torturing the Rohingyas in Rakhine, Myanmar. Fearing for their lives, more than 1.1 million Rohingyas took refuge in Bangladesh across the border. They have been kept in Teknaf and Ukhia shelter camps in Cox's Bazar.
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